Vivo X300 Pro review: Impressive premium camera phone

Besides photography, it excels with smooth performance, premium build quality and delivers a full-day battery life.

Last week, Vivo unveiled the new line of premium camera-centric X300 series in India.

It comes in two variants-- a standard X300 and a top-end X300 Pro-- with prices starting at Rs 75,999 and Rs 1,09,999, respectively.

Design, build quality and display

Vivo X300 Pro retains the design elements of the predecessor. It features a massive circular camera module with ZEISS branding on the back. In the 'Pro' model, the camera bump protrudes a bit more compared to the standard variant.

However, it doesn't affect the user experience much. When the phone is kept on the table with the camera facing down, it doesn't wobble at all. It remains stable even when vibrating during the phone call notification.

The device is made of top-notch premium materials. It has a strong aluminium frame around the edges of the display with a matte finish. Also, the back panel is protected by a very sturdy fibreglass shield.

Vivo X300 Pro.

And, on the front, it has Armor Glass protection, which is said to be 110 per cent better than the predecessor in terms of scratch resistance.

Add to that, the company offers a high-quality cover case free with the retail box. It is soft, sturdy and offers a really good grip for the fingers to hold on to the device, and there is a low chance of dropping it.

Even if it happens, the protective case can protect the device from shattering. Even if it falls with the display facing down, the case has a raised lip around the edges to ensure the screen doesn't crack. However, if the floor is uneven, like a road or rough concrete, it can't guarantee of protecting the device's display.

However, if it falls in a freshwater body, it can survive up to 1.5metres (around five feet) for close to 30 minutes. It can even handle a high-pressure water jet for a few seconds. It comes with an IP68+IP69 rating.

The device comes in two colours--Elite Black and Dune Gold. Our review unit is the latter, which is by the way, looks stunning in the sunlight. Also, thanks to the frosted glass finish, it manages to repel the fingerprint smudges quite effectively.

Vivo X300 Pro.

The flagship X300 Pro sports a big 6.78-inch 1.5K (2800 x 1260p) LTPO AMOLED screen with a 20:9 aspect ratio. Though it lacks an anti-reflective coating, I had a good time watching video vlogs, movies on the flight.

Outdoors too, I didn't have to squint much to read messages, as the display supports up to 4,500 nits peak brightness.

The Vivo phone also features dual-SIM slots (type: nano), an infrared sensor, a Type-C port and an ultrasonic optical in-display fingerprint sensor. By the way, the latter works amazingly well. It can accurately recognise the finger impression and unlock the home in a fraction of a second.

Performance

Vivo X300 Pro is powered by MediaTek's 3nm class Dimensity 9500 octa-core processor with Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12 GPU, NPU 990, 16GB LPDDR5X RAM (LPDDR5X Ultra Pro) and 512GB UFS 4.1 storage.

Be it graphics-heavy gaming or running generative Artificial Intelligence (gen AI) applications, the device performs smoothly without any hint of lag-ness as such.

Also, thanks to the cooling vapour chamber, the device manages to remain stable and efficiently dissipate the excessive heat when performing heavy-duty tasks.

Vivo X300 Pro runs Android 16-based OriginOS 6.

The phone runs Android 16-based Origin OS 6. It comes with a lot of improvements over the previous version.

It has a new, refreshing user interface inspired by Android 16's Material-3 Expressive UI. It offers dynamic glow, ambient light and gradient glow options.

While gradient blur adds depth, the dynamic glow and system ambient lighting respond subtly to touch, giving each swipe and tap a natural sense of movement and lively animation.

Vivo X300 Pro.

It also features Origin Island, similar to the Dynamic Island feature we see on iPhones. This animation around the front camera will offer real-time updates on services such as live scores of Cricket matches on the sports app, real-time estimated time of arrival of food delivery, ETA of cabs, and more.

With the new glance feature, OriginOS 6 turns the lockscreen into a living, useful surface with animated wallpapers and Flexible Clock controls.

The new OriginOS 6 also improves copy-paste tasks effortlessly than before.

With the new Vivo Office Kit, users can make good use of the phone mirror option to control the PC or Mac — such as drag photos, copy text, or move files as if it’s one big screen.

It also brings the One Tap Transfer feature, where users can instantly transfer files between two devices, including to Apple devices, with less hassle.

The device comes with a 6,510mAh battery and can easily last a full day under normal usage.

It supports 90W ultra-fast flash charging and 40W wireless charging capability.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

Photography

It comes with top-class triple camera module with ZEISS Optics technology, V3+, VS1 dual imaging chips and features-- main 50MP camera (with 1/1.28-inch Sony LYT828 sensor, f/1.57, OIS) with 50MP ultra-wide-angle camera (with f/2.0 aperture) and a 200MP (with 1/1.4-inch Samsung HPB ZEISS APO periscope telephoto camera with f/2.67 aperture, OIS, 3.7x optical zoom, telephoto macro, Zeiss T* coating, ZEISS optics, ) with LED flash.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

The new X300 Pro is a fantastic camera phone. One just has to point the phone at the subject and be assured of a good photo.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

It does a fine job of retaining the details and near-accurate colours of the subject, such as flowers, structures and human faces.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

With portrait mode, it takes brilliant, sharp photos with an artistic bokeh effect in the background.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

Indoors, too, with uncontrolled lighting, the phone manages to get nice, clear images.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

With ultra-wide angle mode, as you can see, it can capture a wide area of the landscape without any software trick of bending structures.

Vivo X300 Pro camera sample with ultra-wide angle mode.

Vivo X300 Pro camera sample with 1X.

It also supports up to 3.7X optical and can digitally zoom up to 100X. The pictures are really good with less noise up to 20X.

Vivo X300 Pro camera sample with 2X zoom.

Vivo X300 Pro camera sample with 20X zoom.

Vivo X300 Pro camera sample with 50X zoom.

Thanks to really good camera software, it does a fantastic job of getting sharp photos at 100X zoom. The best I have seen in a premium phone to date.

Vivo X300 Pro camera sample with 100X zoom.

At night, too, it does a brilliant job of getting crisp photos in low light conditions.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

Vivo has incorporated several AI features, including AI Image Studio, object eraser, reflective glass eraser, AI Landscape Master, and AI One-Shot Multi-Crop features, to enhance the photography experience on the X300 Pro.

Vivo X300 Pro comes with feature-rich AI photography tools

On the front, it houses a 50MP (f/2.0) camera for selfies and video calling. It takes brilliant selfies in all light conditions.

Vivo X300 Pro's camera sample.

The phone's main camera can record 8K at 30 frames per second. It can also take ultra-slow-motion 1080p full HD videos at 240 fps. And, the front camera can record 4K up to 60 fps.

Final thoughts

Overall, the Vivo X300 Pro is an impressive premium camera phone.

Like with most flagship phones in the market, the new model's starting price is quite hefty compared to the predecessor. This is actually caused by increased costs of mobile silicon and storage chipsets, which are also in short supply worldwide.

Vivo X300 Pro.

Vivo X300 vs competitors

The new X300 series will be competing with Google Pixel 10 (review), Apple iPhone 17 (review), Galaxy S25 (review), iQOO 15 (review), OnePlus 15 (review), and Oppo Find X9 (review), among others.

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